The future is coming fast. How long until you will level up? If you are serious about improving your AI skills, then consider joining the AI Campus in the AI Coaching Academy. 💡 The Founders of the AI Campus Earlier this year I launched the AI Coaching Academy to give ambitious professionals a place to practice [...]
At last night's Christchurch AI Meetup, we demonstrated how the barrier is collapsing between someone having an idea and building something useful. Greg Dickson demonstrated how to vibe code an app with Manus, and with just a few prompts, he created a dashboard for managing YouTube complicated YouTube workflows. It wasn't technical skill that enabled him to create [...]
I’ve been writing content on the Internet for a long time, and I must confess - I’m vain about what I publish. I have always produced a large volume of content. I was a marketing automation expert for a decade, so I can make a lot. I like making a lot. But the absolute last thing I [...]
Last week I was invited by Rita Cincotta onto the Deliberate Leader Podcast. If you don't know Rita, she is a is a leadership coach and who helps leaders grow through strengths-based practice, reflection, and deliberate action. She's also a trusted colleague and an old friend. We were able to quickly get into deep conversation about the overlap [...]
One of my core values is that learning should be fun. That’s why I use games to teach in my AI training workshops — so we can get more done in good cheer. Most people approach learning like it’s medicine. They expect serious work to feel heavy, and to wait for fun until after work is finished. But our [...]
Last week at AgentCamp in Christchurch, hosted by Steve Knutson at Stratos Technology Partners, I spoke about a shift that is quietly transforming how people work with AI. Most people still think the secret to good AI output is writing a clever prompt, but the deeper truth is that prompting is only a small part of the equation. [...]
AI is having a moment right now, and it's because of OpenClaw. OpenClaw is an AI Agent that controls its own computer. This open-source AI agent can run on an old laptop, or a Mac mini, or a VPS, a Virtual Private Server. With its own hardware, email accounts, and web browser, its own memory and [...]
AI is better at evaluating content than generating content. This makes sense, when you stop to think about it. For a large language model to interpret your instructions, and create output, all in the same step, it dilutes the same token budget over two requests. But if you have ask AI to [...]
Giving your team Copilot licenses will not magically create AI transformation. That mindset is treating AI as a technology problem, when it is actually an operator problem. Most leaders I meet don't have a clear idea about what AI could do for their organization, or how to embed change at this scale. So they give new tools to [...]
After 4 weeks of hosting AI Coaching Power Hours in my new community, the Ai Coaching Academy, we've uncovered some best practices: Provide specific feedback when responses aren’t satisfactory, guiding the AI to refine its output. Break down complex requests into smaller, more manageable steps. Use probing questions to help the AI dig deeper or explore alternative [...]